Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020415
2020-04-15
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
- 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
- Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
- 4-13 April (Easter and more): Lars
- 22 April (Not-Easter I): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 23 April (Not-Easter infill): Staff with reqs
- 24 April (Not-Easter II): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 1 May (May Day): Lars
- 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
- 14-15 May: Jeena, maybe Postponed
- 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
- 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
- time, details, etc TBD
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 29-31 May: Brennen (NEVERMIND)
Rotating positions
[edit]Train
[edit]- Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Important_dates
- 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
- 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
- 13 Apr - wmf.28 - James + Lars
- 20 Apr - wmf.29 - NO TRAIN (holiday)
- 27 Apr - wmf.30 - Lars + Brennen
- 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
- 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 18 May - wmf.?? - Mukunda + Dan (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
- 25 May - wmf.?? - Dan + James
- 1 Jun - wmf.?? - James + Jeena
- 8 Jun - wmf.?? - Jeena + Lars
- 15 Jun - wmf.?? - Lars + Brennen
- 22 Jun - wmf.?? - Brennen + Antoine
- 29 Jun - wmf.?? - Antoine + Mukunda
= Status
[edit]SoS
[edit]- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
[edit]SoS going async for now. 🎻
Outgoing
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Web team: Portals gulp4 migration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247996
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.27 - phab:T247774
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.28 - phab:T247775
- Next week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday
Callouts
[edit]- Release Engineering
- Next week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday
- [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
Team Business
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]Book club
[edit]Monthly reflection on accomplishments - April '20 edition
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Docker images published on buster-based contint2001 (as part of general temporary switch-over from contint1001 to 2001 for buster migration)
- I should patch dev-images, eh?
- Composer is now authenticated with github
- Dropped basic PHP 7.1 testing from CI
Q4 Planning
[edit]Standup!
[edit]- Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
Our Workboards
[edit]- Unfortunate Wasteland of Sadness (Release Engineering Team): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
- Kanban-ish (Release Engineering Team TODO): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4104/
- Current work (Release Engineering Team TODO (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
- "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority
TODO Triage!
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
- Couple of choice TODO items:
Antoine
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Found a fix for zuul-merger namespace clashing
- zuul-merger on contint2001 now runs out of Zuul deployed via scap!
- Worst thing
- Fighting puppet ;D
What's on your workboard
[edit]Brennen
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Shell scripts.
- Worst thing
- Shell scripts.
What's on your workboard
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- My daughter belly laughing uncontrollably at my wife's juggling skills.
- Worst thing
- A death in the family.
What's on your workboard
[edit]
James
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Progress with phan/seccheck merger.
- Worst thing
- I guess we're going to have to start PHP8 CI jobs soon, yay for more load on CI…
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Jeena
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Lars
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Productive vacation hacking on several personal projects
- Worst thing
- pandemicweatherOKRssoftwarepythoncomputersuspoliticsukpoliticshumanityandeverything
- HN commenters in particular
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Mukunda
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Had a good discussion with Brennen about local dev stuff, especially regarding docker images and the need for a EngProd docker registry.
- Worst thing
- vague uncertainty about the future
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Tyler
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Book club happened <3
- Found a good podcast -- together apart -- https://www.priyaparker.com/podcast
- FInished a good book -- an everlasting meal -- http://www.tamareadler.com/book/about/
- Worst thing
- Code deployment office hour: crickets + smallest train of 1.35 series
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Zeljko
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Frontend web performance training
- Worst thing
- dead car battery